I spent a while knitting up the sides, finally reaching the next interesting part - the brim...
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Knitting the double-layered brim...
which is folded over and then cast off to make the double layer, using a three-needle bind-off.
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Closeup of the brim in progress. The really interesting part is not yet started, though!
Binding off, for me, is always a little weird. I'm sort of feeling three things at the same time - happiness that the item is finally finished (or almost finished, with the end very much in sight), a little bit of sadness that it's over and I don't get to knit longer or more with the lovely yarn, and annoyance because binding off always takes a good long while (or at least it feels that way to me).Then the hat was finished... and looking very blobby.
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It's finally finished! Though still looking very unspectacularly and blob-like.
So it went off to take a little bath, and afterwards it became great friends with a dinner plate, and the two got very close and hung out together.
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Cute couple, the hat and the plate, right? (The plate is standing on a glass jar, by the way.)
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The hat on the plate, seen from the top. I really love these spiral patterns!
And now it's dry... so yay, new hat! And it is still cold enough outside to wear it!